Alpine Audio Now, LLC

Audionow IP Holdings, LLC

Google Inc.

Alpine in Motion LLC

Elan Joel Blutinger

Marcel Barbulescu

Thomas M Isaacson

Joseph Bous

Jeffrey N Pollack

Eugen Leontie

Alexandra Moe

Radu Robotin

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for broadcasting audio tweets. A system broadcasting audio tweets receives tweets via telephone devices, wherein each listener hears a telephone call of a broadcast on the telephone devices. Each received tweet is associated with one or more tags specifying tweet content, which is used to analyze received tweets. The system presents a display of analyzed tweets for selection to a host. The host selects one or more tweets and broadcasts the selected tweets as part of the broadcast to the telephone devices. Automatic speech recognition can be used to automatically convert received audio tweets to text to enable tagging and analyzing the tweets.

System and method for broadcasting audio tweets

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for streaming data. The method includes presenting a data stream including an interactive communication and detecting feedback from the user in response to the interactive communication. If the feedback indicates a request to receive data associated with the interactive communication, the method includes buffering the data stream from a point in time associated with the feedback to yield a buffered data stream, connecting the user device to a commerce presence associated with the interactive communication temporarily and resuming playback of the buffered data stream to the user device following completion of the temporary communication between the user device and commerce presence.

System and method for interactive advertisement augmentation via a called voice connection

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for video and secondary audio source synchronization. A system practicing the method establishes a communication with a device such as a telephone or digital device and receives an identification of an audio stream associated with a video presentation specified by a user. The user interacts with the system using the dial pad on a telephone or by manipulating controls within a dedicated application on a smartphone or tablet device. The system computes a likely delay affecting most devices receiving the audio stream and delays a transmission of the audio stream to the device by the delay amount. In one embodiment, the system receives a delay adjustment signal from the device and adjusts the delay amount according to the signal. Then the system transmits the audio stream to the device by the new delay amount.

System and method for video and secondary audio source synchronization

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating audio access to radio stations via a call-to-listen application on a device. A server can provide a listing of radio stations via an application on a user device, such as a smartphone, receive a selection of a radio station by a user and obtain a phone number associated with the selection. The server utilizes a phone dialer on the device to dial the phone number and is presented with received audio from a radio station associated with the phone number via the device. In one embodiment, a least expensive transmission mode is determined based on a data plan balance and a voice plan balance, and the audio is presented via the determined least expensive transmission mode. In another embodiment, the phone number dialed is determined by user location.

System and method for facilitating audio access to radio stations

Disclosed herein are a computer-implemented method, system and tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage media for communicating information between a radio host and a calling device. The method includes receiving a request from a group of devices for live streaming audio from a website, connecting the group of devices to the website in response to the received request, streaming audio from website to the group of devices, receiving input during the live streaming audio from at least one of the group of devices, aggregating the input from the at least one of the group of devices, and presenting the aggregated input to the radio host, wherein the radio host can respond in the live streaming audio to the presented aggregated input. Users can queue a personal playlist and share playlists of audio generated from web-based articles for telephonic playback.

System and method for communicating streaming audio to a telephone device

Disclosed is a method of processing a signal such as an audio signal. The method includes normalizing a received signal to a level of between &#x2212;2 dB and &#x2212;10 dB to yield a normalized signal, compressing the normalized signal exceeding a threshold (such as 70% of the maximum volume and above) to yield a compressed signal, performing frequency equalization on the compressed signal to yield an equalized signal; and normalizing the equalized signal.

System and method of filtering an audio signal prior to conversion to an MU-LAW format

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for calculating and reporting the cost-savings associated with communicating content on a single stream of data from a content server versus communicating that same content to clients where each client has an individual data stream connection, and the comparison of those costs over various data paths. These costs can be the actual bandwidth, the data throughput, or monetary in nature. They can also include other factors beyond communication rates, such as setup, maintenance, and switching costs.

System and method for cost-savings reporting

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for streaming audio via a telephone call. The method includes receiving a telephone call from a user via a client device, presenting available audio streams to the user and receive an audio stream selection from the user, contacting a website associated with the selection and communicating the selected audio stream with the user, and while streaming the audio stream, replacing advertisements with new advertisements selected from an advertisement database. The system includes modules configured to control a processor to perform the method. The system may also include modules configured to control a processor to receive a telephone call from a client device, receive streaming audio from a website, detect an advertisement identifier associated with an advertisement, supersede the advertisement with a new advertisement or insert an advertisement, and communicate the streaming audio with the new advertisement to the client device.

System and method for advertisement augmentation via a called voice connection

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for streaming audio. The system includes a processor and modules configured to control the processor to present an audio stream from a website to a user phone or device via a telephone call, the audio stream having an advertisement, and detect feedback from the user in response to the advertisement. The system also includes modules configured to control the processor to buffer the audio stream from a point in time associated with the detected feedback, and connect via the telephone call to a commerce presence associated with the advertisement and create a telephone call session between the user device and the commerce presence. The method includes presenting an audio stream from a website to a user device via a telephone call, and detecting feedback from the user about advertisements.

A system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for advertising. A system configured to practice the method receives user situation information. Based on the situation information, the system transmits an advertisement to the user's mobile device, wherein the advertisement is associated with an identification card and a coupon and transmitted independent of any user solicitation for a communication and independent of a request for a product or a service. The system receives input from the user via the advertisement for purposes other than redeeming the coupon; and, and receives an indication of a purchase associated with the advertisement and completed at a point of sale device using the identification card, wherein the mobile device differs from the point of sale device and wherein the purchase is at full price and a rebate associated with the coupon and the identification card is provided to the user.

Providing coupons with a mobile computer of a merchant

A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for advertising and completing a transaction using a credit card or a debit card. The method includes receiving situation information at a device, based on the situation information, transmitting an advertisement to the device, associating an advertisement with an identification card such as a debit card, credit card, student ID card, biometric data, or club card, and receiving an indication of a purchase associated with the advertisement and completed using the card. The disclosure enables a user to receive an advertisement on a device such as a mobile device and then make a purchase decision based on that advertisement in a normal fashion or transparent to the user and sales clerk, without the use of coupons, special codes or any other additional and annoying requirements for making the purchase. The user only needs to use an appropriate identification card. The merchant for the clerk at a point of sale handles the transaction in a standard fashion. The user can then receive a confirmation of a discount for the transaction on the consumer mobile device and later receive a rebate on an identification card statement.

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Washington, DC, United States of America

Elan Joel Blutinger